Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:07:03 -0600
Reply-To: Kevin Myers <KevinMyers@AUSTIN.RR.COM>
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From: Kevin Myers <KevinMyers@AUSTIN.RR.COM>
Subject: Re: From SUGI 28 Opening Session
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At the risk of alienating some of my very good friends at SAS, I must
heartily agree with Tim. I am sick and tired of hearing nothing but
marketing drivel about new SAS products and "initiatives". In order to make
decisions regarding SAS products, technical decision makers need real,
detailed specifications, in concrete terms, not this meaningless garbage.
SAS seems to be suffering under the delusion that this kind of stuff
actually gets them software sales by influencing non-technical upper
management types. They seem to fail to realize that it's technical folks
who primarily drive the vast majority of decisions to acquire SAS products.
I strongly hope they will take notice of this input from Tim and others, and
return more to the technically driven business and marketing model that
built their success. Also, I hope that they will concentrate more on
continuing to improve their core data management and statistical tools,
rather than branching out in a hundred different directions for which they
really have neither the necessary levels of in-house expertise nor the
manpower to do a good job (hence requiring marketing drivel to cover up for
the true lack of functionality).
Don't get me wrong, I love SAS! It's a great tool for a very wide range of
applications. I just don't want to see SAS waste tons of time and money on
stuff that doesn't do them (or us) any good, and might eventually result in
the death of a great company and some great products if this situation isn't
corrected.
s/KAM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Churches" <tchur@OPTUSHOME.COM.AU>
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Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: From SUGI 28 Opening Session
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 03:08, MacFamily@AOL.COM wrote:
> SAS-L Readers,
>
> Here are the five segments of the SAS Intelligence Value Chain:
A value chain? Is that like a food chain?
> >> PLAN is a set of proven, bewst-practice rodmaps that
> are supported by integrated industy data models,
> project methodologies and consulting expertise that
> reliably create customized solutions.
Oh-oh! Marketing buzzword alert! Sounds like I can leave my brain at
home? Phew!
> >> ETL(Q) raises the typical funtion of (extract, transpose, load)
> to the powser of Quality.
ETL raised to the power of Quality? What sort of marketroid bafflegab is
that?
> SAS ETL(Q) is an integrated ETL platform
> that sysnthesizes corporate data from operational silos
> of information on any platform and in any format.
> >> INTELLIGENT STORAGE is a dedicated platform designed
> from the outset to efficiently disseminate information for
> both business intelloigence and analytic requirements.
Surely the storage component disseminates data, not information for use
by "both business intelligence and analytic requirements".
> >> BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE is a set of out-of-the-box,
> enterprise-wide ad-hoc query and reporting capabilities
> for different types of users.
> >> ANALYTIC INTELLIGENCE is a dedicated, integrated platform
> for analyzing the past, present, and future
> business scenarios to drive sound business decisions.
All this confirms the complete rout by the Cary marketroids of the
techies and statisticians.
--
Tim C
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